10 October, 1990 1500 UTC:

Well radio life has been generous to me. I do not feel that luck has had much to do with this. I now have 305 countries worked with twelve cards not yet returned. Some of them have yet to be sent out. But I have spent a tremendous amount of time tuning and listening carefully, working what I hear that is meaningful to me and working the rest just for the practice. Now I need to follow the expeditions and be ready when they come up. A couple from the South Pacific sound promising...

The bands seem to be much livelier and 10 meters has been busy as heck. The openings seem to bring out the bad habits many of us have developed. Seems the traditional DX frequencies always have ragchewers up close and belligerent. Ah... that's the nature of the animal, both hobby and participants.

Been spending a lot of time on RTTY and use other modes only when chasing a new one. But I don't do RTTY contests. I heard somethings going on during the recent BV9P expedition that make me seriously doubt the validity of RTTY DXCC claims.

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